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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I can understand calling theologians philosophers but being a philosopher does not make you a scientist.

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  • dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nothing “makes” you anything. Questioning and exploring existence can look very differently in different ages.

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Okay you haven’t been very explanatory about your statement that theologians were scientists. But it seems you are using the term extremely loosely to mean anyone who explores questions.

      This is not my definition at all. Science is a method of exploring questions that involves hypotheses and tests and building principles from observed results. Theologians do none of that and never did. They made shit up. That is not science.

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      • dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’ll clearify my concept. If you could possibly take a midle age theologist and teleport him to the current age, they’d be total nerds and not priests.

        Clergy back then was studying, and studying and studying and exploring reality in a framework that gave for granted that God exixts. You can call it whatever you want but I think it’s a bit silly to reduct it to “those dumb fucks belong to the mines”, while in reality it through their efforts that, unwillingly (?), we pursued knowledge to the point of refining modern science methodology.

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